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Can someone please give me a run down on why everyone seems to love this show? I know nothing about it, coming from a corner of genuine ignorance here.
Because it's less a show aimed at children, and more aimed at their parents - especially millennial parents of youngish children. It's clever, it's earnest, it's trying to teach it's underlying philosophy but not in the ham-fisted "what did we learn today kids" format that most kids TV takes. It's full of in-jokes, references and callbacks that most kids aren't going to pick up on, and does a fantastic job at characterisation for all it's supporting characters.
See if you can find the episodes "stickbird" and "baby race" - if those don't land, then the show probably isn't for you.
I would also add "Onesies", really hit too close home for a lot of us. And I loved to see Brandy back on this last episode. Edit: mention to the last episode S03E49.